Tent of Miracles

Amado never fails to entertainingly portray the world of Bahia. This work tells of many different goings on surrounding the sacred afro-diasporan religion of candomble.

An American Professor, from Columbia University, no less, shows up in Bahia, Brazil, pursuing an interest in a deceased Local writer. One level of the book has to do with the tizzy among the local intellectual establishment as they try to concoct background materials that will not offend the great

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American public. The novel also enters the mind of the deceased writer, as he tries to deal with all the problems and joys that made him the writer he was. There's a great deal of conflict presented here, and good stuff about the difference between the colonized world, and what the colonial power might think "proper' presentation of a local figure. The dead writer is very Brazilian, and really not too acceptable to Mid-America. It's a book about accepting the real, if the reader can do that.

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Looking forward to reading this as I have loved everything else by this author.